Writing this week
Last night I sat down and figured out how
much I have to write every day between now and Christmas in order to get the
book done. It came out to 800 words. So I set myself a reasonable target for the
remaining days of this week, and then the New Regime begins: 800 words per day,
no matter what. That means finding the discipline that has so far evaded me in
this novel, to actually write in the evening and late at night, if I don't hit
my target in the morning. That's been the main reason I haven't finished the
book yet: school started up in September, my wife started working in a church on
Sunday mornings, and I could no longer write every morning. But I didn't make up
the time later in the day. So now I have to do that,
always.Yesterday morning I had
written almost 400 words. So I figured out I had to write 800 words a day, and
then I proceeded to write 800 more words last night. Then at Starbucks this
morning I managed to crank out almost 1,400. I'm blowing my target out of the
water. So I came home from Starbucks this morning and announced, "I think I need
to resubscribe to World of
Warcraft, in order to have a way to
reward myself for days like today." It's been kind of a running joke at my
office that I needed to restart my subscription if I wanted to get this novel
finished, because it was such an effective motivator for the last book.
Well, today I finally did it.
What's more, I set my son up with a guest pass, so we played together. Quite a
lot, today, actually: we started new characters and got up to 7th level. He had
so much fun, and it rekindled a lot of my early excitement about the game. Good
father-son bonding.More
milestones: last night I broke 80,000 words, and this morning I passed page 200
in my Word
document.
Posted: Sat
- November 25, 2006 at 10:47 PM
